Honorable Mention Essays

Essay Contest submissions are judged in two rounds. In the first round each essay is read and ranked independently and anonymously by three judges. Only a small fraction of those entries advance to the second round, in which each essay is read and ranked by every judge on the entire panel. The following essays did not win one of the top three prizes in each division, but they were judged worthy of proceeding into the round of finalists. They are therefore accorded Honorable Mention.

“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation.”

Persuasion

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